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World Briefing | Europe: Poland: World War II Disinterment

Prosecutors prepared to exhume up to 1,600 Jews massacred in World War II in Jedwabne, in eastern Poland, hoping to settle whether they were killed by Nazis or Poles. The exhumations were begun by the National Remembrance Institute, a state body, after the book ''Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jebwadne,'' by Jan T. Gross, blamed local Poles. Nazis were in control of the area at the time, in July 1941, and the killings had been laid to them. Though many Jews did not want the remains disturbed, the disinterments will be monitored by an American rabbi, Michael Schudrich.